During the 1982 Falklands War, British Harrier fighter aircraft brought down 24 Argentine aircraft using missiles and eight with cannon fire.

At the onset of the seventeenth century a soldier in one of Spain’s famed tercios received a daily ration of two pounds of bread, a pound of meat, and a botella of wine, more than a half-gallon.

Between the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and its end in 1918, the number of machine guns in the Imperial German Army increased by 512.8 percent, from about 1,500 to about 80,000.

HMS Wellesley, a 74-gun ship launched in 1815, was the last ship-of-the-line to be lost in action, when she succumbed to a Luftwaffe bomb while serving as a receiving ship in 1940.

Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, victor in the Battle of Midway, had a taste for raw onions.

Austria, Hungary, and the other Hapsburg lands were at war 161 of the 300 years from 1600 to 1900.

In 1243 King Henry III of England issued what appears to have been first commission as a privateer, to Adam Bobernotter and William LeSauvage, with instructions that they “grieve” the French sea and land.